Nirvana sues Marc Jacobs
By Ferraiuoli LLC

Such design was called out by Nirvana LLC, the company which controls the assets of American rock band Nirvana, which sued Marc Jacobs for trademark infringement for using a near-duplicate of Nirvana's famous logo, a smiley face registered as a trademark in 1992.
“Nirvana licensed its copyrighted logo on literally dozens of different t-shirts, shirts, hats, hoodies, bags, backpacks, glasses, wallets, and other items of merchandise, many of which have sold extensively for decades”, reads the lawsuit filed in a California federal. court. “They’re using a virtually identical copy of Nirvana’s copyrighted image more generally to promote Marc Jacobs’ overall ‘Bootleg Redux Grunge Collection,’ which includes many other products, by making the Nirvana image the signature image used at promotional events for the ‘Bootleg Redux Grunge’ collection”, it adds.
